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The
University of Technology, Sydney
(UTS), is a university
in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The
university was founded in its current form in 1988, although its
origins trace back to the 1870s. UTS is notable for its central location as
the only university with its main campuses within the Sydney
CBD. It is part of the Australian Technology Network
of universities and has the fifth largest enrolment in Sydney. UTS
has been ranked 234th in the World's Top 500
universities by the Times HES (2008) and was
one of two Australian Universities given A1 ratings across all
major disciplines in 2007 and 2008 by the Federal
Government Education department.

History

The present day University of Technology originates from the
Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts (the oldest
Mechanics' Institute in Australia). In the 1870s the SMSA formed
the Workingman's College which was later taken
over by the NSW government to form, in 1878, the Sydney
Technical College. In 1969, part of the Sydney Technical
College became the New South Wales Institute of
Technology (NSWIT). It was officially unveiled by Neville Wran.

It was reconstituted as the University of Technology,
Sydney (UTS), in 1988 under an Act of NSW State
Parliament. In 1990 it absorbed the Kuring-gai College of Advanced
Education and the Institute of Technical and Adult Teacher
Education of the Sydney College of Advanced Education, under the
terms of the Higher Education (Amalgamation) Act 1989.

Although its antecedent institutions go back as far as 1893, they
took new shapes from the 1960s, creating a new University focused
on practice-oriented education with strong links to industry, the
professions and the community, and with a growing research
reputation and a strong commitment to internationalisation.

UTS has had three phases in its history. In the first phase, effort
was concentrated on embedding an amalgamation of institutions which
were culturally and structurally different. This strengthened the
research culture and established a more consistent approach to
teaching and learning.

The second phase, beginning in the mid 1990s, saw a strong focus on
international student recruitment, combined with an expansion of
professional post-graduate programs for domestic students. Greater
emphasis on both research and flexible learning also became
priorities during this period.

The third phase began in 2000 with a 10 year strategic vision. This
involved concentrating research funding into four major research
institutes, upgrading physical infrastructure at the city campus,
enhancing teaching and learning, and continuing entrepreneurial
activity.

1893 - Sydney Technical College established - the precursor of
the NSWIT.

1940 - NSW Parliament passes Act to establish an Institute of
Technology, World War II intervenes.

1945 - Technical College Annexe of Sydney Teachers College was
established in the late 1940s - ITATE developed from this
Annexe.

1946 - Lectures commenced at Balmain Teachers College with an
enrolment of 210 students.

1964 - Establishment of New South Wales Institute of Technology
(NSWIT).

1965 - NSWIT enrols first students into Science and
Architecture; SE Barratt appointed Chairman of the Interim Council
and the first Council.

1967 - NSW Institute of Business Studies established and
teaching commences at the Brickfield Hill Campus, George Street,
Sydney. Professional recognition of NSWIT engineering courses.

1968 - Amalgamation of the NSW Institute of Business Studies
and the NSW Institute of Technology.

1971 - William Balmain Teachers' College moves to Lindfield
site (Kuring-gai Campus) NSWIT incorporated and Faculty
organisational structure set up.

1973 - William Balmain College declared a College of Advanced
Education.

1984 - NSWIT Brickfield Hill Campus relinquished in December
after eighteen years - Faculties of Business and Law and the
Library move to the Haymarket Campus.

1985 - The new Haymarket Campus officially opened, the building
shared between NSWIT and ITATE.

1987 - Announcement on 8 October of the granting of university
status to NSWIT, which was followed by the passing of the
University of Technology, Sydney, Act 1987 and the appointment of
Professor RD Guthrie as Vice-Chancellor.

1988 -
The School of Design of the former Sydney College
of the Arts was incorporated into NSWIT on 25 January and on 26
January NSWIT became the University of Technology, Sydney, known as
UTS.

1989 - University of Technology, Sydney, Act 1989 No 69
assented to 23 May, forming the new UTS in combination with KCAE
and ITATE from Sydney CAE .

1990 - New UTS established from 1 January; inaugural meeting of
Council on 15 November.

Faculties

The University has faculties of:

Faculty

Arts and Social Sciences

More than 2000 students are enrolled in the faculty of
Education.

Business

The largest faculty at UTS and one of the largest business
schools in Australia with more than 10,000 full-time equivalent
students and an active global network of almost 50,000 alumni. The
Dean is Professor Roy Green. The schools of Accounting and Finance
have AACSB and CFA accreditation
respectively.

Design, Architecture and Building

Engineering and Information Technology

UTS Engineering is one of the largest providers of engineering
education in Australia and teaches over 5,000 students, both within
Australia and in international locations.

Law

Approximately 2,500 students and an average of 90% of
undergraduate students working full-time.

Nursing, Midwifery and Health

UTS: Nursing, Midwifery and Health offers the only stand-alone
Bachelor of Midwifery in NSW

Science

Insearch

Insearch is the learning pathways provider for UTS. Insearch offers
English language courses to prepare international students for
entry to UTS bachelor's degrees and post-graduate study. Insearch
provides courses that lead to university degrees in the area of
Business, IT, Engineering, Science, Nursing, Communication, Design
and Architecture.

Current standing

In keeping with its former nature as a Technical Institute and its
current name, UTS designs its courses to contain a high level of
practical technical knowledge as opposed to pure theory, and
maintains close links with industries in order to do this. Its
faculty structure also reflects this emphasis on technical
knowledge; for example, its Law faculty contains a Practical Legal
Training course, its Humanities degrees are heavily geared towards
journalism and media productions and its IT and Engineering degrees
offer one year of industrial training.

The UTS faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is widely known
for its practical media/ communications degrees, along with its
thorough focus on critical theory. UTS is also host to the
Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ). Graduates from this
faculty serve as a feeder to the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation conveniently located just across the road, and the
Fairfax Group of
newspapers.

Reputation and Achievements

Each year UTS attracts the highest number of first preference
applications for Creative Arts courses in the state. These courses
include the Bachelor of Design courses offered by the
Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building and the Bachelor of Arts (Communications) courses
offered by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

In December 2006 the UTS Faculty of Business earned
accreditation from AACSB International. To
contextualise this there are only 5 institutions that have received
this accreditation in Australia, and just 540 worldwide (less than
10 per cent of the world's business schools). This comes on the
back of being ranked in the top six business/economics faculties
for the DEST Learning and Teaching Performance Fund (2007).

At the end of 2007 UTS became the first undergraduate CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst)
Program Partner in Australia based on the Bachelor of Business with
a major in Finance. The UTS Finance major is still the only
undergraduate degree in Australia to be acknowledged by the
CFA.

In October 2007 UTS received the equal highest allocation of
the "Learning and Teaching Performance Fund" alongside the
University of Wollongong. The university received an A1 rating for
all four discipline groupings (science, business, humanities and
health).

UTS has earned an EOWA
(Employer of Choice for Women) citation every year since it was
launched in 2001, and has been rated as a best practice
organisation by EOWA for the past ten years.

The Australian Graduate Survey results (2007) showed that 90%
of Graduate School of Business graduates secure employment three
months after graduating with an average starting salary of over
$80,000 while the average salary for undergraduates were
$50,760.

In 2008 UTS received the equal highest allocation of the
"Learning and Teaching Performance Fund". The university received
the highest rating for all four discipline groupings (science,
business, humanities and health).

Campuses

Campus architecture

The University of Technology, Sydney is an interesting mix of
architectural styles reflecting the different periods in which the
buildings and grounds were constructed and renovated. The famous
'Tower' building is an example of brutalist architecture with square
and block concrete designs. Built following massive student
protests in U.S. colleges like Berkeley and Kent State University,
the building was designed to do away with large, outdoor areas and
hence limit students' ability to stage large protests. The
Haymarket campus (building 5) combines a modern interior with the
remaining exterior of the old markets building, and the recently
completed buildings 4 and 6 are designed with an element of
high-tech architecture.

In October 2006, the university's tower building was voted by 23%
of the total vote in a poll hosted by Sydney Morning Herald as ugliest
building in Sydney.

The University recently acquired the former Sydney Institute of
Technology building that stands opposite to Building 10 (on
Jones St) and adjacent to Building 2. This building was named
Building 7, but was demolished to make way for an extension of
Alumni Green.

Libraries

UTS provides services through two campus libraries, the Blake
Library (City Campus) and the George Muir Library (Kuring-gai
Campus), and online www.lib.uts.edu.au.

UTS Library is responsible for UTSeScholarship, providing a secure, stable, digital
home for the scholarly output of the University's staff, students
and research community.

The Blake Library (City Campus) will relocate to a new purpose
built facility around 2015.

Housing

The University offers modern, self-catering accommodation in four buildings named
Gumal Ngurang, Geegal, Bulga Ngurra, and Blackfriars. Gumal Ngurang
is the largest complex and is located on Broadway, just down the
road from Bulga Ngurra.

Future infrastructure projects

2009 will
see the construction of a new building on Broadway to house the Faculty of Engineering and Information
Technology. In the medium term future UTS will make a
significant investment in its facilities intending to create a
world-class campus. This is part of the UTS City Campus
Masterplan which was approved by the University Council in
August 2008. This plan which was unveiled to the public on January
19, 2009 will commence in mid 2009 and involve:

New buildings: a nine-storey "gateway" building on Broadway
adjacent to Building 10; a five-storey building facing Thomas St;
and, a nine-storey building on the former Dairy Farmers site in
Ultimo Road

New student housing in a multi-storey block to be built over
the rear of Building 6

Extension of the Tower podium to create a new entry zone,
improved Broadway street frontage and a "student commons" hub

Refurbishment of existing buildings, including a major
reconfiguration of Building 2 to house an "integrated learning
commons" comprising a new library and associated study spaces

The rejuvenation of Alumni Green, including the construction of
a multi-purpose hall under its northern end

New intra-campus pedestrian networks, including the proposed
closure of Jones St to create a pedestrian thoroughfare

Student life

The UTS Union is the organisation which runs a range of on-campus
student services, including food & beverage outlets, cultural
activities, student social events, and is responsible for
overseeing UTS clubs & societies, sports clubs and other
recreational activities. The UTS gym has recently been renovated.
The City Campus is home to two licensed bars, 'The Glasshouse' and
'The Loft'.

UTS has its own community radio station on campus, 2SER FM. The studio is located on level 26 of the UTS
Tower and broadcasts to the entire Sydney region. The station is
jointly owned by UTS and Macquarie University, with a second studio at Macquarie
University. UTS Journalism students help produce the
station's news and current affairs programs including "The Wire"
and "Razors Edge".

The UTS Students'
Association is the representative student organisation at UTS.
It publishes the student newspaper, Vertigo , runs the second hand bookshop, and
advocates on behalf of students both individually and
collectively.

Sports Clubs

UTS
has a famous rowing club located at Haberfield. The UTS Rowing club produced all four crew
members of the coxless fours at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and
Julia Wilson, Monique Heinke and
Victoria Roberts who were members of the team involved in the
Sally Robbins controversy in
2004.

UTS Tigers (formerly UTS Jets) are the
University's rugby league team. They
are affiliated with the Balmain
Tigers rugby league club. They defeated Sydney Uni in the 2008
Broadway derby. They are the current premiers of the NSW tertiary rugby league
competition.

The UTS Hockey club is one of the biggest sporting
clubs at UTS, playing in the top grades of men and women's hockey
in NSW.

The UTS fencing club is the home of Olympian Frank
Bartolillo who represented Australia in fencing at the 2004 Summer
Olympics in Athens. It is the most successful fencing club in
NSW.

The UTS Northern
Suburbs Athletic Club competes in the Australian circuit and
has produced many National Champions. They won the national
championship in 2006 and became the first club from NSW to win. Its
athletes include Nick Bromley, Stuart
Paterson and Tristan Garrett.

The UTS Volleyball Club is the largest university
volleyball club in NSW. Both the Men's
and Women's teams compete in the state's premier league - the
Sydney League.

UTS won the East Coast Challenge for the first time in
2008, winning both the 'Overall Points Score' and the 'Per Capita
Champion Award'. Macquarie University finished 2nd and Sydney
Uni 3rd. Other popular sports at the University include
Ultimate Frisbee, touch rugby league and 5-a-side football.
The general sporting colours at UTS are green and black.